Deleting Recovery Points
I created a "Test" archive which contained about 3 VMs and 2 or 3 recovery points for each one.
Then I decided I wanted to delete it and start again, but could not find a way to "wipe" the archive clean, and had to go and delete recovery points on a VM by VM basis, which was tedious. Is there an option to clean an archive of all recovery points?
Also, when the last recovery point was deleted, it took several minutes of disk churning before the task completed, which was a little disconcerting. I imagine that as it's the last one, it is reorganizing all the space or something, but a warning would have been nice.
I recently just purchased Vmprotect 8 after testing it out. It is very slick and works as advertised with minimum fuss. However this is one feature that I think was glaringly missing. The ability to tell the backup system how long to keep data for. Otherwise the hard drives will just continually fill up until it is full. There needs to be a way to set the time period when to automatically remove older snapshots. I know this would throw a wrench in the method you are using (snapshots) but it really is a feature we desire. A backup system should be set it and forget it .. with periodic checks to make sure it is functioning (unless you are a huge company and that is your job to monitor backups all day long!).
Hi Steve,
This option does exist - it is in Step 3 of the backup options and is called "Automatically delete old backups."
Yeah I just found it actually and was coming to edit my response :) Thanks. I thought it must have a method this is too good of a product to miss something that big :)